Clifton Suspension Bridge - parking?

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We are in Bristol for an event this weekend and DS wants to see the bridge on Sunday. Can anyone recommend where to park?

Park on Ladies Mile or Sea Walls on the Downs, and walk down.

It's basically street parking I seem to remember.

It's all street parking. Best to check out the CPZ rules on the council website.

Ladies Mile is a good place to park - free, and a very pleasant walk across the Downs to get there.

While you're there, you can check out the Observatory, the tunnel through the rock to the balcony in the cliff (which probably has a snappier name to it) and the known-only-to-locals rock slide (which is great for kids, and, from memory, grandparents who definitely ought to know better ) chopsybaby.com/magazine/clifton-rock-slide-slidey-rock-clifton-suspension-bridge-bristol/

I think parking in the Clifton area is free on Sunday.

Thanks this is great. We will go for the Ladies Mike I think.

I would park on the other side, Leigh woods. Church road on google maps. But that’s because the houses in that side are amazing to look at!

Not the question you asked... but why the bridge? If it’s an engineering love, you can see brunel’s original bridge from the floating harbour in hotwells. This was way more revolutionary for Bristol that the suspension bridge.

For the bridge, if you drive over the a3029 you get an amazing view of it.
It’s £1 to drive over and they accept cards.

Have a lovely time. I flipping love Bristol!

I would second the floating harbour and underfall yard which shows how it all works, is free and you can still see the bridge.

I often park where the red line is. If not, it’s driving around the village and trying to squeeze into a space!

Do the observatory and the rock view thingy. There’s also a visitor centre on the other side of the bridge. On the Clifton side there’s a nice play area. Plenty of nice cafes etc in the village.

If looking for lunch, Clifton Village is the place to go (it's also nice for a wander as it's one of the most well heeled parts of Bristol). The Primrose Cafe is particularly lovely - I always order the goats cheese salad (but they don't do it on a Sunday, boo)

We parked where Yellowsun suggested, although it was so early this morning that there was plenty of space. DS loved the rock slide!

Glad he liked it! My son does too.

I am in my 60s and used to slide down that rock slide as a child ! Aww !